kennett Posted November 11, 2017 Report Share Posted November 11, 2017 Evening all, whats the easiest way to get some weight on a young Springer? He's not thin, spot on at the moment but it doesn't leave any spare to lose dogging in and beating. He's currently on skinners field and trial and raw tripe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mochastorm Posted November 11, 2017 Report Share Posted November 11, 2017 Increase the tripe, reduce the dry feed. Don't feed the raw and dry together, they are digested at different rates. If you only feed once a day consider feeding twice a day. If your dog is kennelled outside they also expend more energy as the temperature drops. When a dog is working hard they will look leaner but need more fuel for their little engines. A dog that is overfed dry food will start to scour, so it can be counter productive. The best way to judge if you are feeding correctly is the waistline and visibility of the ribs, if they are not a heavy coated dog. You will know your dog best and be able to judge its 'fighting weight.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted November 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2017 Thanks for that, he is never going to be fat and at the moment he is looking really well but he puts his all into a days work and isn't carrying any spare. I'll up his tripe and split his feeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted November 12, 2017 Report Share Posted November 12, 2017 split his food up to 3 /day....and soak his dry food and suppliment with tinned tripe......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted November 12, 2017 Report Share Posted November 12, 2017 You could give a small hi energy boost around dinner time, oats banana peanut butter all mixed together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-dot Posted November 12, 2017 Report Share Posted November 12, 2017 Ambrosia creamed rice.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 On 11/11/2017 at 22:57, Mochastorm said: Increase the tripe, reduce the dry feed. Don't feed the raw and dry together, they are digested at different rates. If you only feed once a day consider feeding twice a day. If your dog is kennelled outside they also expend more energy as the temperature drops. When a dog is working hard they will look leaner but need more fuel for their little engines. A dog that is overfed dry food will start to scour, so it can be counter productive. The best way to judge if you are feeding correctly is the waistline and visibility of the ribs, if they are not a heavy coated dog. You will know your dog best and be able to judge its 'fighting weight.' This. Although I don't split the tripe from the dry, I used to but it made no notable difference and as I have always fed twice a day, feeding all the dry in one meal was causing more problems than the tripe was solving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveboy Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 Send him to live with my mother for 2 weeks while you go on holliday.... She told me mine likes "sausages and cheese" when I picked him up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 11 hours ago, daveboy said: Send him to live with my mother for 2 weeks while you go on holliday.... She told me mine likes "sausages and cheese" when I picked him up. Brilliant, but I can top it my mother in law had our gwp a long while back while we were away, apparently she was walking three dogs and they took off after a sheep!! Ours followed the rest!! She thought it best not to tell us, I would have been glad had it just been sausages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washerboy Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 Brown bread ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbird Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 How old is 'young'? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted December 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 On 07/12/2017 at 18:30, bigbird said: How old is 'young'? ? Well I suppose young in comparison to my other dogs, he is 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted December 10, 2017 Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 Same as anything or anyone else, more calories to put weight on, less calories to strip it off. Adding foods that are high in calories that the dog will easily eat is always an easy bet. Raw meat, ribs, tripe, fatty meat has lots of calories, sausages are very fatty cuts of meat, break a few eggs on top of his food etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotslad Posted December 10, 2017 Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 I see no one has mentioned and probably taken for granted but make sure ur up to date with worming. Almost every dog is different, sometimes u can up the protein/ammount and it just runs out the other end. I have 1 lab that is looking a bit skinnier now than I'd like him to be, but he has done a lot of days so far this season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside1000 Posted December 11, 2017 Report Share Posted December 11, 2017 We used to have lurchers and whippets , they always looked skinny but well muscled, we fed raw tripe only, some supplements when needed, but the main thing was exercise, also all exercise was done 'on lead' at a brisk walk, especially to build muscle, walk it on, run it off, My springer also had the same feed and exercise as the lurchers, but she lived indoors as a house dog and I think the kids would feed her titbits when I wasn't around, she could work all day and never tired, but except for when she was working she was 'on lead' for most of her walks. She maintained ideal weight and muscle all her life even after 2 litters of pups , 9 in the first and 10 in her second. of all the dogs I have owned in my life ( almost 70 years ) she was the one I missed the most after she passed, she was 15 years old and still liked a day out with the gun right up till she died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greylag1 Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 get rid of the dried food completely and mix in whole wheat mixer and veg.i found mine put more wt on if only fed once a day rather than splitting it down.feed late in the day rather than the morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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